The Four Step Brothers (1954) | Feets Do Your Stuff

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @Nogames1234
    @Nogames1234 4 года назад +34

    I LOVE MY PEOPLE, WE ARE SO TALENTED IN EVERYTHING WE DO. DANCE FELLAS!!!!👏🏾✊🏾

  • @paulgittelsohn8965
    @paulgittelsohn8965 3 года назад +9

    From September 1978 to April 1979 I was a street musician in San Francisco, playing ragtimey and old jazz songs on Banjo-Mandolin, calling myself "The Bawdy Balladeer". For a few days I teamed up with a young woman tap dancer named Rusty Frank. We were performing near the Powell and Market Street cable car turnaround when an elderly man holding a shoe bag asked if he could tap dance with Rusty to my accompaniment. He proceeded to lace up his leather tap shoes and began to tap dance on the sidewalk. He was absolutely amazing. A huge crowd gathered around. After about three tunes he put his tap shoes back into the little shoe bag and introduced himself. Unfortunately, I don't remember his name but he said he was one of the original Four Step Brothers and was in San Francisco performing in a tap dance revival show. That was 24 years after he danced in this 1954 video.

    • @rustyfrank
      @rustyfrank 2 месяца назад +1

      And now here is that very Rusty Frank. We have been reunited after all of these years!

  • @N2LADIES55
    @N2LADIES55 Год назад +2

    I'm been a fan of theirs for decades and they were amazing dancers.

  • @areannamitchell1851
    @areannamitchell1851 4 года назад +27

    We are some phenomenal entertainers and moreeeee💪🏿❤❤❤

    • @coachfonde
      @coachfonde 4 года назад +1

      Yeah sis 💯

    • @jameswaggoner3124
      @jameswaggoner3124 3 года назад +1

      If white people said that you would call them racist

  • @i-35vagabond56
    @i-35vagabond56 4 года назад +15

    I remember seeing The Step Brothers on The Ed Sullivan Show back in the 1960's. I thought they were the most entertaining guests that ever was on that show.

  • @TricksterDa123
    @TricksterDa123 Год назад +2

    I used to watch them on TV when I was a little boy. I remember that hand clap, foot stomp beat they had.
    it used to fascinate me to no end. Fond memories, indeed. Though they appear here on the Peter Lind Hayes variety show, I saw them more frequently on the Ed Sullivan Show, and that was because no other variety show of the era consistently showcased black acts like the Ed Sullivan show.

  • @dr.thrive1812
    @dr.thrive1812 4 года назад +19

    LEGENDS!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎🕺🏾

  • @liteskinnedbobbybrown6256
    @liteskinnedbobbybrown6256 4 года назад +12

    Demond Wilson aka Lamont Sanford,obviously used some of these moves on his dance routines on Sanford & Son

  • @loahmadaidid1986
    @loahmadaidid1986 4 года назад +6

    The Nickeless Brothers. Wherr Awesome

  • @iveywebb
    @iveywebb 4 года назад +16

    Welp, I'm about to look up as much footage as I can on them 🤷🏾‍♀️💖.

  • @MrOverdogg
    @MrOverdogg 4 года назад +5

    pure showmanship and greatness

  • @rickglorie
    @rickglorie 3 года назад +2

    What raw power, so talented musically, the rythm, dance, the entire act is real.

  • @uprightdoublebass
    @uprightdoublebass 4 года назад +36

    I wish real life cops were this cool.

    • @brendaann727
      @brendaann727 3 года назад

      Yea really! There are some dancing traffic directing police out there though, some doing dance challenges, and even a dancing police horse. No tapping though...

  • @charmaine1775
    @charmaine1775 4 года назад +17

    Every kid wanted to tap dance in the 80's...💛

  • @normal2954
    @normal2954 4 года назад +8

    Smooth.

  • @arabiamcmahan5778
    @arabiamcmahan5778 4 года назад +5

    Black people; we ARE some powerful, intelligent, and talented people! Always have been and always will be 💯✊

  • @Benet1nOnly
    @Benet1nOnly 4 года назад +3

    Thank you❣ for posting this priceless footage.

  • @jamesbarber4765
    @jamesbarber4765 4 года назад +2

    Excellent 👍 content. Thank you

  • @Jesus_is_God279
    @Jesus_is_God279 4 года назад +2

    I try not to comment on you tube much. But Reelback I thank you soo much for sharing this. I took tap dancing as a credit class in high school. I knew nothing about it but was determined to learn it. I wasn't that good, but my instructors picked me to tap with a few of my other class mates at the Smithsonian. In the class we went to see Jelly's last Jam on stage. Took dance classes from well known local dancers. It was amazing. As I have gotten older I released why they wanted to introduce tap to my generation. Because it's cultural history was fading. They wanted to introduce to us and old style put it in our hands and a battalion and have us to carry it on to the next generation. Not to bring up colour, but I notice that most of the people you see tapping today are whites. The classes are filled with whites. They have come to be appreciative of this magnificent form if art today than we as blacks are. Just to think about it Jean Kelly and Fred Astaire were white tap dancers that came to love the art and navigated to a different style. My main point is the cultural history of this dance started with African Americans and man this filmed showed the creativity, style, and effortlessness. Man! Anyone that knows about tap knows it is a language and I am hearing the four brothers loud and clear!!! Thanks again for sharing. I with I saw more African Americans tapping like this today.

    • @brendaann727
      @brendaann727 3 года назад

      Everyone had their own unique style and were legends in their own right. I miss the old style and yes it would be great if more did it today!

  • @fiordalizatorres6962
    @fiordalizatorres6962 4 года назад +1

    Are ancestors will never be Forgotten ✊🏾

  • @BozemanHomeImproveme
    @BozemanHomeImproveme 4 года назад +2

    My father was one of the stepbrothers and i have been trying to find footage on him for sometime.. He replaced Prince Spencer after he left..

    • @brendaann727
      @brendaann727 3 года назад +1

      Do you know Tammy Liggins? She commented on the video "The Four Step Brothers 1943". Sounds like your relative.
      Hope you find footage. Comment on every video of theirs and someone may turn up with it eventually. What year did he replace him?

  • @MrRudyc
    @MrRudyc 4 года назад +2

    What Talent

  • @heathertea2704
    @heathertea2704 4 года назад +1

    All RIGHT now!!! 👏👏👏

  • @cikidi1
    @cikidi1 4 года назад +12

    My people is the best that was liv

  • @zoraidagarcia625
    @zoraidagarcia625 4 года назад +1

    So many thanks, reelblack, for posting this. I had not seen these great dancers yet and they are incredible. When you said that they incorporated different music styles to their show, Afro-Cuban style included, may I tell you that I noticed in one of them certain steps I had seen from the Aragón Orchestra singer. Aragón was one of the most important Cuban orchestras of all times. They made the cha-cha-chá very famous and their sound was lovely, mostly because of the violins they had and the singers and other musicians had a section to perform some dance steps. Bring more of the Four Brothers when you can. Take a lot of care these days.

    • @ES2990
      @ES2990 Год назад

      What exactly is the Afro-Cuban element in this dance? It looks like tap, swing, and lindy hop and the charleston, but I could be wrong.

  • @-oiiio-3993
    @-oiiio-3993 3 года назад +1

    Great stuff!

  • @sheranda77
    @sheranda77 2 года назад +1

    Them fellas was jammin!

  • @jamesmiller3816
    @jamesmiller3816 4 года назад +4

    Try, if possible, to get some footage on the Mills Brothers, and the Ink Spots. Keep up the excellent work. REEL BLACK!!

  • @dancingheartltd6646
    @dancingheartltd6646 4 года назад +1

    Wow..❤ this! Actually thought I was in church watching someone shouting😀

  • @jasminevirgo9811
    @jasminevirgo9811 4 года назад +1

    Alright talented brothers.🏋🏋🏋🏋🏋💃💃💃💃🙋🙋🙋

  • @barbaraibubeleye3316
    @barbaraibubeleye3316 2 года назад

    We are number 1 in everything!🎩🎩🎩🎵🎵🎵🗝🗝🗝

  • @rickimhotep1236
    @rickimhotep1236 26 дней назад

    I think one of them is Al (Wilson) from that Sanford and Son episode - The Stand-in💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

  • @marieperez8330
    @marieperez8330 3 года назад

    Awesome!!!!

  • @trainluvr
    @trainluvr 4 года назад +1

    The NYC subway fare was a nickel from 1904 to 1948. By 1953 it was fifteen cents. Society's managers were as inept then as now, with the working class having to scramble to adjust and make do. Unthinkably long walking distances become thinkable when you simply don't have the means to pay a fare that tripled in five years. Reelblack is one of my favorite channels, brought to me by Dick Gregory!

  • @commanderwatchman9994
    @commanderwatchman9994 4 года назад +8

    When men were men?

  • @DetroitLives313
    @DetroitLives313 4 года назад +2

    I was going to ask if they were really brothers, but I see in the description that they were not. They were great though.

  • @dizzlenizzel4422
    @dizzlenizzel4422 4 года назад

    at 5:17 it sounds like these cats said BULLSHIT ! LMBAO !!😁

  • @williechill786
    @williechill786 4 года назад +1

    That was Tuff!!

  • @ericcarter2795
    @ericcarter2795 4 года назад +2

    Nothing bad about two brothers that was dancing what I see busy brighten up their faces as much as they could laughing my ass off

  • @donnasloane9031
    @donnasloane9031 Год назад

    I was watching this at age 6 and later took lessons from Maceo....His grave plot says: WHATCH YOUR STEP

  • @joefagan6244
    @joefagan6244 3 года назад +1

    Wondering how much wear and tear they used in their tap shoes.

  • @CRMunir1
    @CRMunir1 4 года назад +1

    SMILEY.

  • @ES2990
    @ES2990 Год назад

    What exactly is the Afro-Cuban element in their dance?

  • @gwattsrealestate
    @gwattsrealestate 4 года назад +1

    What show was that
    The Host had some smove moves

  • @checkmate545
    @checkmate545 4 года назад +4

    Does anyone tap anymore lol.

  • @davidmorrison5186
    @davidmorrison5186 4 года назад

    Fiiiiiiife

  • @victorcunoswingtap9069
    @victorcunoswingtap9069 4 года назад

    A question: you mark the year 1954 and the Peter Lind Hayes Show... According to Imdb this show lasted for only one season, 1950/51 and no mention of the Step Brothers. Could this performance come from another TV show?

    • @reelblack
      @reelblack  4 года назад

      IMDb is authoritative but not definitive. There’s a few things on the channel that they have no record of. I’m glad you researched. This is from a series that aired on CBS.

    • @swingtapParis
      @swingtapParis 4 года назад

      @@reelblack Thanks a lot for your quick return! I am a tap dancer and researcher, working actually on the Step Brother's routines, therefore the interest in dating...

  • @conniemcmillian7010
    @conniemcmillian7010 4 года назад +8

    It's a damn shame grown black men were called boys back then. Still called boys. These peckawoods make me so sick. Anyway, those brothas could dance their butt off. Pure talent.

    • @MemoGrafix
      @MemoGrafix 4 года назад +1

      Because they ALLOWED it, they should have shot the shit out of the KaveAnimals. Back in those days it was way easier to get guns legally/illegally. Too bad people relied on GEEzus so much back then.

    • @tyedrichill8097
      @tyedrichill8097 4 года назад

      Both of y'all are tripping. Peckawoods is a better term than boys.

    • @SugarBearMosher
      @SugarBearMosher 3 года назад +1

      Boys in this essence was not meant as a negative reference.

    • @brendaann727
      @brendaann727 3 года назад +2

      If you were around in the era, men of many shades called each other boys; even in the military, private life, or entertainment. It was kind of like a chummy term.
      They were awesome! Wish they were still tapping around today!

  • @christlegreen9458
    @christlegreen9458 4 года назад

    ...and counting.

  • @fatimahlee7355
    @fatimahlee7355 4 года назад +3

    7th

  • @reveroneveron9230
    @reveroneveron9230 4 года назад

    Someone put your hand out again😉😞

  • @NamesKavell
    @NamesKavell 4 года назад +2

    First

  • @magovenor
    @magovenor 4 года назад

    What was that “...well boys,”, shit about. Those were grown men, not a boy amongst them.

    • @SugarBearMosher
      @SugarBearMosher 3 года назад

      Boys was not meant as a negative in this essence.

    • @brendaann727
      @brendaann727 3 года назад

      It wasn't uncommon back then for men of many shades to call each other boys! Today the equivalent would probably be bruhs!

  • @checkmate545
    @checkmate545 4 года назад +1

    However, you just couldn't and wouldn't beat Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire for pure perfection 👍

    • @AlexRides808
      @AlexRides808 4 года назад +11

      They were good. But they didnt have the athleticism or stamina of the guys or the Nicholas brothers.

    • @Kyohan137
      @Kyohan137 4 года назад +12

      Nobody did the Nicholas brothers are in a class by themselves and don’t sleep on Sammy Davis jr.

    • @checkmate545
      @checkmate545 4 года назад +4

      @@AlexRides808 Nicholas Bros were totally in a league of their own. No one and I mean no one could do their routine today. I've seen more dance videos on here than most folk's and the style of dance today has gone out of the window 😭😭😭😭

    • @deniseworsham8559
      @deniseworsham8559 4 года назад

      They both were good students.

    • @heathertea2704
      @heathertea2704 4 года назад +2

      @@Kyohan137 Sammy Davis Jr. was DANGEROUS. 🔥
      BAD man.